mr. kennedy: i want to start, mr.speaker, by thanking my colleague from mississippi for coming down to the floor today. thank you very much, sir. mr. speaker, this simple resolution which passed the senate by unanimous consent last week would authorize the use of the capitol rotunda for a ceremony to award the congressional gold medal to shimon peres. the congressional gold medal is one of the highest civilian honors and shimon peres, israel's president, is most deserving of this noteworthy award. during a recent trip to israel last year, i had the distinct honor of meeting president peres who even at 90 years of age is as devoted as ever to a strong and unbreakable bond between our two nations. awarding the congressional gold medal to shimon peres will put him in a distinguished category of only nine individuals who have ever been awarded both the congressional gold medal and the president's medal of freedom. which president obama awarded peres in 2012. of the dual medalists, four are nobel peace prize laureates, an

mr. kennedy?" hand went up. including the hand of the cute girl who agreed to marry me a few years later. of thatd remind me seven years later. she went on to become our senior united states senator from massachusetts, elizabeth warren. was toter what else happen over the rest of my law school career, it could not possibly as the -- as hu miliating as the first three seconds. i went on to redeem myself, and i went on to graduate on a day much like this, ready to get my diploma. and she was the one to hand it to me. she couldn't resist to ask me one more time before she let it go -- what is the definition of a subset? i was able to come up with the answer. here's to the graduates the only advice i would give you today. either buy a dictionary or marry someone who knows the answer. [laughter] it is good advice. [applause] thank you. it is definitely the only applause i got anywhere near law school. there are a few lessons i could share with you today at this proud and patriotic institution. ago, thomass jefferson

mr. kennedy?" hand went up. including the hand of the cute girl who agreed to marry me a few years later. of thatd remind me seven years later. she went on to become our senior united states senator from massachusetts, elizabeth warren. was toter what else happen over the rest of my law school career, it could not possibly as the -- as hu miliating as the first three seconds. i went on to redeem myself, and i went on to graduate on a day much like this, ready to get my diploma. and she was the one to hand it to me. she couldn't resist to ask me one more time before she let it go -- what is the definition of a subset? i was able to come up with the answer. here's to the graduates the only advice i would give you today. either buy a dictionary or marry someone who knows the answer. [laughter] it is good advice. [applause] thank you. it is definitely the only applause i got anywhere near law school. there are a few lessons i could share with you today at this proud and patriotic institution. ago, thomass jefferson

mrs. kennedy.k you so much for being with us to talk about these letters and history. so fascinating. join us tonight for our special series, the '60s tonight, it focuses on the assassination of president kennedy, airs 9:00 eastern, do not miss it. it's fantastic. >> thanks for joining us. >> we want to leave you with this, a special birthday shout-out to 90-year-old george h.w. bush. that's the former president just moments ago jumping out of an airplane. happy birthday, sir. our hats off to you. "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. [ gunfire ] >> is the united states about to rejoin the iraq war? talks of a possible american air strike or even a set of air strikes as militants threaten to storm baghdad, after overtaking iraq's second largest city. >>> also this hour -- >> reporter: it

mr. kennedy's limousine to the embassy.chev was waiting, also, for talks to explore such issues as berlin, nuclear testing and disarmament. >> what do you think about this meeting between the young president and khrushchev? >> well, i think it was long overdue because the world needs peace and the world needs disarmament. >> for khrushchev, it is a chance to test the new president on a subject of berlin, khrushchev is tough and blunt. >> khrushchev said west berlin is a bone in my throat. and we must extract it. >> berlin, of course, is divided at the end of world war ii but berlin is 110 miles inside of the east german zone. khrushchev is threatening to force the integration and take over west berlin and kennedy says to him, berlin is part of our western commitment and world war ii. don't challenge us there. >> after two days, the talks end. >> kennedy did not do well. he allowed himself to be caught in an ideological argument with khrushchev. he was warned against it. he did it anyways and khrushchev bullied him and pushe

in president kennedy's old oval office mrs. etary and her aides, have removed every scrap, every vestige of the signs of the personal touches of president kennedy. >> we know from history that one test of societies is how do they handle transfer of power at the top? lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, and a lot of people disliked him greatly, some even hated him, would be the president of the united states. i think it shouted about the strength of the country and that we swear by the rule of law. >> the president of the united states. >> my fellow americans, all i have, i would have given gladly not to be standing here today. >> johnson knows he has to show the country that the ship of state is sailing on under a new captain, but at the same time he can't appear to be too anxious to assume power and he has to keep the kennedy people onboard with him. so that speech means everything. >> no words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began. >> the people of europe

mrs. kennedy, and the crowd yells. and the president of the united states. can see his sun tan all the way from here. >> looking at how things actually went it was not just a trip to dallas, it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 elections. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. connelly, the governor on the left. >> it was using his influence to get all the fighting democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now. in fact he is not in his limo, he is reaching across the fence shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the roses. >> thousands trying to get through the fence, the dallas police trying to keep them back. >> this is great for the people and makes the egg shells even thinner for the secret service, whose job it was to guard the man. >> it was pretty hard to write a script in texas for going any better. >> thousand

mr. kennedy, to dallas. looked like a friendly greeting. but the ad was bordered in one might run an ad for a death or tragic event. jfk started to read the ad and it was a long list of 12 hislaints about him and administration accusing him of being a communist, of turning communists, to the of causing the death of american soldiers. here is one of the 12 defapper questions. quote, why have you ordered your brother bobby to go soft on communism? fellow travelers and ultra leftists in america, while permitting him to persecute who criticizes you and your administration. that's one of the milder things that was in the ad. there was more. the previous night in dallas, severalhad printed thousand hand bills headlined, wanted for treason. old were in the style of an west reward poster with mug shots of the wanted criminal, in the 35th it president of the united states. warned his wife, we're today. into nut country but jackie, he added, if somebody wants to shoot me from a rifle, nobody can stop it. so why worry about it. fatalist. sense of humo

nuclear holocaust since the end of world war ii. >> the message to president kennedy was long and rambling but for the first time mrhe presence in cuba of soviet missiles. he argued they were defensive in nature but he said he understood the president's feeling about them and would withdraw if president kennedy would promise not to invade cuba. >> the following is the text of president kennedy's statement of noon. i welcome chairman khrushchev's statesman-like decision to stop building bases in cuba. this is an important and constructive contribution to peace. >> it was an incredible sigh of relief in the country and in the world. >> with the tranquil courage of the great leaders of democracy, john fitzgerald kennedy said to the communist world, enough. >> there had been some back and forth between kennedy and khrushchev. we'll make a promise not to invade cuba and within a matter of months the united states will take the missiles out of turkey. >> in return for that, khrushchev publicly and verifiably removed missiles from cuba. >> the conditions of the cold war had been altered in spirit if not in fact by what ha

mrs. kennedy. secret service desk job and had time to think, that his life began to spiral. his marriage disintegrated. >> i lived in my basement in my home, drank heavily, smoked terribly and that lasted almost six years. >> reporter: at his lowest, he did an interview with "60 minutes." >> i have a great deal of guilt with that. i turned in a different direction. it was my fault. >> do you regret doing that interview? >> the fact that i broke on camera, on tv was the best thing that happened. from that point, later on, i realized i had to change what i was doing and recovered. >> reporter: he wrote two books about the experience, reconnected with his family but still believes it would have been better if he took that bullet. what is it like shouldering that burden for 50 years? >> that's where the sense of failure and guilt come in. you realize, if i had been able to make that difference, the united states and the world would have been a different place. it was that close. >> reporter: clint hill

mr. kennedy, good to have you with us tonight.action to the epa's move today. >> people in the environmental community are delighted. you know, there's still a lot that we need to do. this is finally, thank good we're finally doing something that is decisive and it's something that is real about addressing an issue that we've done about. it's a cataclysm to our country and president obama did it after fighting the republicans for years, trying to get rational, common sense legislation through. they would not pass legislation so finally he used his executive authority, which the supreme court had approved, to say okay, since you won't do it, we are going to start doing something decisive about limiting the amount of carbon that we're putting into the atmosphere. it's not just global warming. the coal burning power plants have affected fishermen. we're using 60,000 coal burning power plants, the appalachian mountains, which you love, which i love, are being plowed under. think ear they're exploding enough nitrate explosions every da

mr. john kennedy. >> may i ask you so i don't look too naive, a tough question right off the bat. >> whether i'm a democrat or republican? >> people recognized the television was now the medium that mattered. it wasn't before 1960, and it was every day after 1960 in those presidential debates. >> all right. >> once everyone had a tv set in their living room, and advertisers had fully gotten a grip on how effective this was a way to sell products, the very definition of what you were doing was to create entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible. >> beaver, eat your brussel sprouts. >> i can't. >> "leave it to beaver" was something a lot of families understood. it was the first show that was ever shot from the perspective of a child. >> beaver. >> most people have had a lot of the experiences that the beaver or wally had. and everyone in their life has an eddie haskell. >> some dumb kid fell in his soup. >> good evening, mr. cleaver. some poor, unfortunate child is trapped up there. >> everyone has that moment when they were so embarrassed and they thought they'd never get

kennedy immediately said yes. because he was sure he could do better than nixon. >> i think mr.ixon is an effective leader of his party. i hope he would grant me the same. the question before us is which point of view and which party do we want to lead the united states? mr. nixon, would you like to comment on that statement? >> i have no comment. >> if you're live on television and camera right here, there is really no place to hide. once you see a guy sweating when asked a question, are you sure he is the leader for you? >> that's the question before the american people and only you can decide what you want. what you want this country to be. what you want to do with the future. i think we are ready to move. >> if you saw it on television, clearly kennedy had won that debate. >> gentlemen, thank you very much for committing us to present the next president of the united states on this unique program. >> it was the beginning of a new form of political craftsmanship. you could structure your message appropriately for the tv camera and you could have a huge impact and if you could

mrs. kennedys family to best figure out a way to archive her correspondence with father leonard. >> video released by the taliban reportedly shows last weekend's handsover of u.s. soldier bowe bergdahl to u.s. special forces. president obama met for the first time with ukraine's president elect poroshenko, messaging $5 billion to ukraine's military. >> the anniversary of tienanmen square massacre. >> the lbgt community making advances for equal rights, but one part of the group continues to face hurdles in being accepted. >> the height proving too much for one crane operator. the rescue to bring him to safety and other videos captured by our citizen journalists. >> we're back with more in just two minutes. nutes. real reporting that brings you the world. giving you a real global perspective like no other can. real reporting from around the world. this is what we do. al jazeera america. >> the handover, new video this morning showing the taliban handing army sergeant bowe bergdahl over to u.s. special forces as anger over the deal gross on capitol hill. >> the midwest is picking up after a

kennedy. mr. swanson describes the formation, goals and legacy of the investigation, and details the role of chief justice early warren. this program was posted by the supreme court historical society. it's about an hour. >> i should begin by saying this is the second hottest ticket in town this evening, the hottest in town is an eighth grade production of "a midsummer won't be able and to see it until i see it on c-span. it have a special relationship the lead actress in the show. i can't miss that. i'm sure you understand. >> welcome to the supreme court, we're delighted to have you here, and thank you to the supreme court historical society, the host of this evening's program. i want to say a word about the society's work. it engages its members, including me, with educational programs such as tonight's event, as well as the annual leon silverman lecture series. it publish tess journal of supreme court history. i know many of you are avid readers of it, as i am. it is the most engaging legal jo

kennedy. mr. swanson describes the formation, goals and legacy of the investigation, and details the role of chief justice early warren. this program was posted by the supreme court historical society. it's about an hour. >> welcome to the supreme court we're delighted to have you here and thank you to the supreme court historical society, the host of this evening's program. i want to say a word about the society's work. it engages its members including me, with educational programs such as tonight's event, as well as the annual

mr. king, robert kennedy, hampton and all the others who were killed you diminish the strength of the movementosen to be more cowardly maybe he would have lived locker the status of the choice he made. [applause] >> and you used as reference and each generation makes its own history a new generation that now must make history but it faces huge challenges whether the climate crisis and then poverty in the end of its equity in the world but all of us than a drop in the resources of those who struggled before us. and the people of "mankind beyond earth" gave us strong shoulders to stillborn -- stand on. [applause] we glass more roundtable all talking. >> people have to believe they can do this. jim forman always used to say and i it fired him tremendously as my first mentor i have never worked so hard in my life the first weekend i got to of land title vegas but the three hours old weekend and it sncc was en chaos and collapsing. you have to be able to believe in yourself what you want to do and know that we will win. so we have to put those men off the table. [laughter] and believe we can win. i

kennedy. there cannot be an american solution for every world problem. this is not isolationism, mr.mmon sense. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rom illinois seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize and congratulate dr. ed hightower on his upcoming retirement. many of you may know dr. hightower from his time as a college basketball referee, working 12 ncaa final fours and countless games for the big ten and the big east. he was also named the men's college basketball official of the year in 1992 and was inducted into the illinois basketball coaches association hall of fame in 199 . but off the court, dr. hightower's a true community leader and a public servant. ed hightower's been an educator for 40 years, serving as a teacher, a principal and an administrator. he's received three degrees from southern illinois university at edwardsville and a doctorate from st. louis university. mr. davis: in 1996 he was hired as the first african-american superintendent in edw

the united states congress, and when you think of the folks that came before you, jack kennedy, richard nixon, mrnhower, and general eisenhower, and did you think that you would be one of the last two? >> well, you always hope that you are going to live as long as you can. i nef figured that i would be hitting 87, but the lord has been awfully good to me, and the people of the 12th district have been very kind and i'm still around, although, i have to say that i will be retire agent the end of this congress and i have to say that it is also time for me to go, because, you don't -- >> well, we look forward to seeing you, sir, as a congressional spouse which is your next role. you will be darn good at it. congressman john dingell, thank you for being on the program. >> pleasure, my friend. take care. >> thank you. >>> and tomorrow as part of the coverage of the celebration of d-day brian williams will interview president obama in normandy and you can see it on "nbc nightly news" at 6:30 eastern tomorrow, and catch more in the primetime special at 8:00 p.m. eastern and that is exclusive of course, a

rable joseph kennedy i >> good morning, everyone. mr.ident, members of the congressional leadership, it is an honor for me to join you this morning on stage. thank you all for the work that you did to make this moment and this old metal possible. i would also like to thank the congressional gold medal committee, congressman trent franks, senator ayotte, senator bennett, for their partnership in shepherding the bipartisan legislation behind this award through the house and the senate. honor,her guest of at 91 yearses. young, you famously said that you aren't ready yet to consider your legacy, but the future is much more interesting than your past. due respect, mr. president, i think it would be hard to find a person in this room that does not see the future of israel through the lens of your legacy. last year, i had the honor of meeting president perez on a trip to israel with some of my colleagues. it was an incredible visit from jerusalem to ramallah, tel aviv to masada. of all the memorable moments, there is one that shines through. at

kennedy iii. >> good morning, everyone. mr.leadership, it is an honor for me to join you this morning on stage. thank you all for the work that you did to make this moment and this congressional gold medal possible. i'd also like to thank the congressional gold medal committee, congressman trent franks, co-sponsor in the house, for their partnership in shepherding the bipartisan legislation behind this award through the house and the senate. and to our guest of honor, president peres. at 91 years young, you have famously said that you aren't ready yet to consider your legacy. that the future is much more interesting than your past. with all due respect, mr. president, i think it would be hard to find a person in this room that does not see the future of israel through the lens of your legacy. last year i had the honor of meeting president peres on a trip to israel with some of my colleagues. it was an incredible visit, from jerusalem to ramallah, the road to the galilee, tel aviv, to masssad. of all the memorable moments, thoug

. >> john kennedy, the presidential candidate calls mrs. ncern very unexpected public gesture. >> within 24 hours, robert kennedy called that judge and asked that he get king out of jail. next thing we knew is king went public and said i was against having a catholic for president, but if he can wipe the tears from my daughter-in-law's eyes, i have the courage to vote for kennedy for president, and i have a suitcase full of votes. >> dr. king, have you heard anything from vice president nixon or any of his supporters? >> i've been confined and i haven't talked with anybody from washington or from the campaign. >> do you know of any efforts made on behalf of the kennedys? >> well, i understand that the kennedy group did make definite contacts and did a great deal to make my release possible. >> it turned out that phone call was given credit for kennedy's victory in one of the closest elections in modern history. king said, i hope that at last we have a president with the intelligence to understand this problem. i'm convinced he has that under

mr. chairman, i agree with ted kennedy and russ feingold, and where are the liberals today? why is there not a liberal standing here defending the bill of rights and the first amendment? mr. chairman, 42 democrats have signed their name to a constitutional amendment that would give congress the power to muzzle planned parenthood and the national right to life. 42 democrats have signed their name to giving congress the right to muzzle the sierra club. to muzzle the national rifle association and the brady center on hand gun violence. to muzzle michael moore and da souza. to muzzle the teamsters, muzzle the naacp, pastors and priests and rabbis who organize their parishioners to be involved in politics. mr. chairman, i am today introducing two bills to further protect the free speech rights of individuals. i will be discussing those later in this hearing. but i would note, this amendment, if adopted, would give congress the power to ban books and to ban movies. and by the way, citizens united was about finding a movie maker who made a movie critical of hillary clinton. mr. chai

mr. olli heinonen at a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school of government center for science and internationalffairs. previously he served 27 years that the international atomic energy agency in vienna where he was deputy director and head of its department of safeguards. we have ambassador detrani. prior to assuming his role of president of the intelligence of national security alliance ambassador joseph detrani served as a senior adviser to the director of national intelligence and he was director of the national counter proliferation center. and we have mr. stephen rademaker. prior to joining the policy center is a national security project advisor mr. rademaker served as assistant secretary of state for the bureau of arms control in the bureau of international security and nonproliferation. friday that he served as deputy staff director and chief counsel of this committee and we welcome him back. so let me say without objection the witnesses full prepared statement will be made part of the record. that is to encourage you to synthesize this and give us a five minute. the members will have

kennedy half century." let me start with you and what mr.antor said yesterday regarding the criticism to why he lost which included lack of attention being paid to his home state and district. >> well, that may be his view, but i can tell you for sure that it is not the view of many of his constituents in the 7th district. i've been bombarded with emails and tweets and last night had a long talk session with richmonders in that district and they felt that he had essentially abandoned them. a number of people mentioned that he rarely, if ever, had town halls and when they saw him at all he was kind of surrounded by a pretorian guard and of course, he has security because of his leadership position, and they sensed, and i think they're correct. i've known eric since he was elected to the state legislature in his 20s. he's changed a lot. he's become much more ambitious, much more calculating. he was looking for the speakership. he was a national power. he was known internationally, and you know, the folks in the 7th district didn't mind his not

mr. chairman. i ask that the testimony from the robert f. kennedy center for justice and human rights bernard kerik, piper kerman, lamont carrie, anthony pleasant, and reports from the sentencing project, state-level estimates of dellny disenfranchisement in the united states 2010, and from a report from the sentencing project, lifetime of punishment, the impact of felony drug ban on welfare benefits, all be placed in the record. >> without objection. and if there's no further business to come before the task force, without objection, the task force stands adjourned. >> thank you. >>> the supreme court has ruled in a case deal with president obama's freedom to make recess appointments. what did the court decide? tell us about the details of the ruling. >> yeah, essentially they said that president obama overstepped when he appointed three members to the national labor relations board in 2012 while congress or the senate said it was in a recess. basically, the court and all nine justices believe that that was a violation of the constitution recess ap

. >> well, i think i think what justice kennedy i took justice kennedy to be asking me, mr. chief justice, was whether the government's choice to provide that accommodation reflected a judgment on the part of the government that this was something less than a compelling interest, and i don't think that inference is possible, because the government was trying to use that accommodation to ensure that the contraceptives were delivered. so, with all due respect, i don't think there is an inconsistency there. and i do think, if i could, with respect to the issue of whether there are exemptions that defeat a compelling interest, that i submit would be a very dangerous principle for this court to adopt in the form that my friends on the other side have offered it, because not only would you then be in a position where it would be very hard to see how title vii enforcement could be justified by compelling interest in response to a rfra objection, ada enforcement, fmla enforcement, all kinds of things. and i do think -- >> title vii was passed before 1993, so it wouldn't apply rfra w